The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti & RTX 2080 Founders Edition Review: Foundations For A Ray Traced Future
by Nate Oh on September 19, 2018 5:15 PM EST- Posted in
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- Raytrace
- GeForce
- NVIDIA
- DirectX Raytracing
- Turing
- GeForce RTX
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation (DX12)
A veteran from both our 2016 and 2017 game lists, Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation remains the DirectX 12 trailblazer, with developer Oxide Games tailoring and designing the Nitrous Engine around such low-level APIs. The game makes the most of DX12's key features, from asynchronous compute to multi-threaded work submission and high batch counts. And with full Vulkan support, Ashes provides a good common ground between the forward-looking APIs of today. Its built-in benchmark tool is still one of the most versatile ways of measuring in-game workloads in terms of output data, automation, and analysis; by offering such a tool publicly and as part-and-parcel of the game, it's an example that other developers should take note of.
Settings and methodology remain identical from its usage in the 2016 GPU suite. To note, we are utilizing the original Ashes Extreme graphical preset, which compares to the current one with MSAA dialed down from x4 to x2, as well as adjusting Texture Rank (MipsToRemove in settings.ini).
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For Ashes, the 20 series fare a little worse in their gains over the 10 series, with an advantage at 4K around 14 to 22%. Here, the Founders Edition power and clock tweaks are essential in avoiding the 2080 FE outright losing to the 1080 Ti, though our results are putting the Founders Editions essentially neck-and-neck.
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Qasar - Friday, September 21, 2018 - link
burntmybacon just like popinfresh, i guess you will never understand the concept of " no competition, we can charge what ever we want, and people will STILL buy it cause it is the only option if you want the best or fastest " it has NOTHING to do with knowing cost info or what a companies profit margins are... but i guess you will never understand this as welleva02langley - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
Once again, not AMD fault if Nvidia is trying to corner AMD with new hardware gimmicks like physix, and charging the customers.You never intended in buying an AMD card anyway, you just want a more affordable Nvidia solution. Guess what, pay for it or leave it.
Even by earning 100K a year, I refuse to pay the gimmick tax. I will buy Navi at release. Screw Nvidia.
V900 - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
What a cool piece of technology!Raytracing would be amazing to have in games, and it really is the future of gaming. Its crazy to think there will be games with it already next year. (And some later this year!)
Is it too expensive? Meh, we are talking about TWENTY BILLION transistors squeezed into the area of a postage stamp.
People pay 600-1000$ for a phone, and some have no problem paying 1000$ for a CPU or a designer chair.
7-1200$ isn’t an unreasonable price for a cutting edge GPU that’s capable of raytracing and will be fast enough for the newest games for years to come.
imaheadcase - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Did that nvidia check cash they sent you to promote the items yet?shabby - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Definitely a shill, its too obvious.tamalero - Thursday, September 20, 2018 - link
Theres way too many here defending nvidia just because "its a huge chip".That means nothing for the consumer. We're not buying SIZE, we're buying PERFORMANCE AND FEATURES.
mapesdhs - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
Some of the pro-RTX posts sound more like basic trolling though, just to stir things up. If they're getting paid to post +ve stuff, they're doing a pretty rotten job of it. :DformulaLS - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
Your comments sounds like a paid ad. There is no decency excuse for the prices they are charging.DigitalFreak - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
He has a point. People are willing to pay $1000 for a phone, $1000 for a CPU, but $1000 for a high end graphics card is outrageous? I wish the pricing was cheaper, but I'm not having a fit over it. If people don't want to pay the price, they won't. If Nvidia doesn't sell the numbers they want, they'll probably cut the price somewhat.Fritzkier - Wednesday, September 19, 2018 - link
The $1000 phone actually had more technological advancement... And it's an SoC not individual parts...About a $1000 CPU, it's normal because it's enthusiast product (e.g. Threadripper or i9). There's no $1000 i7 or Ryzen 7...
Nvidia shouldn't have made 2080 Ti. They should've made Titan Turing or something...